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The Risk of Ibuprofen

An explanation of why long-term use of ibuprofen for older adults is not recommended. Video Courtesy of Fox News.

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I ... house call it the most doctors to Rosenfeld back to the emails one of the males has to do what with something that's in all of our medicine cabinets ... and that this ibuprofen ... if you were asked whether the whole hasn't taken root Ralston after the age of sixty ... one bottle says that your doctor ... why is there a risk with a ... two minute Trovan is one of the family of drugs ... called non sharon anti inflammatory agents ... and stage ... and that person is another want to preserve them and they're very effective ... and I have always thought safe ... in the control of pain ... known as people get older ... they have aches and pains from arthritis in this and that ... and the problem with these curved with these drugs ibuprofen and in that direction ... is that they ... tend to irritate the lining of the stomach ... if you take them on an ongoing basis ... you can have the gastrointestinal bleeding so on ... but the latest concern is that these drugs the ibuprofen and that person and the others ... been taken with him ... but people over the age of sixty ... increase the risk of heart attack ... and most recently this is in the last week ... those studies shown ... that taking these drugs regularly ... the more you take the greater the risk ... there's also a risk of stroke ... so ... I'm not telling you to and your pain ... and ... pain is bad for you to ... my advice is this ... take these medications as Tylenol ... first ride Tylenol ... the tunnel doesn't work ... he can take these medications in the lowest possible dose ... for the shortest period of time ... the message here is ... don't keep taking them ... on the assumption that if you don't have a nice side effect their safety and then you can take them forever ... do not take these in large quantities for long periods of time ... because the big wrench ... his heart ... and stroke ... as a matter of fact many doctors are now thinking ... that it's better to for people to take O P Lloyds which we used to think or terrible deal codeine and so on ... and they made in the long run be safer ... than some of these ... lesser less potent drugs ...